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Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe.
— Deepak Chopra
The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.
— John Steinbeck
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.
— Sylvia Plath
Nunca se debe gatear, cuando se tiene el impulso de volar (Never crawl when the impulse is to fly)
— Helen Keller
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
— Karl A. Menninger
In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.
— Emile Souvestre
The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.
— John D'Agata
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I unlocked the door and, on impulse, swept Sydney into my arms and carried her inside.
— Richelle Mead
At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.
— Dennis Covington
I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.
— Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse
I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.
— Woody Allen
It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.
— Shirley Hazzard
Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.
— John Steinbeck
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.
— Terence
There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
— William James
If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.
— Rupert Everett
Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!
— Candace Wheeler
A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.
— Bertrand Russell
The words hit, a sucker punch that first inspired pain, then a powerful impulse to strike back.
— Rob Thomas
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
— Marlon Brando
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
— William Butler Yeats
I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.
— Martin Schulz
I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but it sounds like fun.
— Claes Oldenburg
The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.
— Shoshana Zuboff
All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.
— Helene Deutsch
People have been cherry-picking the Bible for millennia to justify their every impulse, moral and otherwise.
— Sam Harris
This impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist. If
— Amanda Palmer
Keeing busy is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.
— Joyce Carol Oates
The impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience.
— Richard Wright
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
— Martin Puryear
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
— Louis Pasteur
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
— Richard Jefferies
I felt an old, visceral insecurity that manifested itself in an impulse to cover up our cribbage game, to literally shield the board with my hands.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
There is strong archaeological evidence to show that with the birth of human consciousness there was born, like a twin, the impulse to transcend it.
— Alan McGlashan
I don't believe in God, don't believe in the devil. Unless you want to count my mother. She might be Satan's sister, I suppose.
— Ellen Hopkins
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver
Into language. Do not waver in it. — Seamus Heaney
Acton your impulse,
swallow the bottle,
cut a little deeper,
put the gun to your chest. — Ellen Hopkins
Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.
— William S. Burroughs
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse
— Chogyam Trungpa
When the opportunity or impulse is there .. ACT.
— Rhonda Byrne
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.
— Anna Quindlen
The habit of stifling an impulse is your conditioned thinking, bent by society's stamp, doing its best to maintain its dominance.
— Garry Fitchett
Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
— Idries Shah
True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.
— Arthur Rimbaud
The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.
— Colin Wilson
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.
— William James
Love wasn't a selfish thing. It was the kindest, most generous impulse a man could have.
— Susan Wiggs
Play continually creates demands on the child to act against immediate impulse, i.e., to act according to the line of greatest resistance.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
— E. O. Wilson
For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.
— Karl Jaspers
I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.
— Marianne Williamson
I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.
— Stephen Fry
With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.
— Deepak Chopra
Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.
— Franz Kafka
Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.
— Jackie Gleason
The man stood alone by the hive. On impulse he put his palm against the wood, as if feeling for a pulse.
— Laline Paull
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The impulse to win is a valuable thing, right up until you let it make you into a loser.
— Tana French
God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring.
— Deepak Chopra
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.
— Jeanette Winterson
The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place.
— Charles De Lint
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
— Baltasar Gracian
On impulse, he leaned over and brushed his lips against hers.
— Victorine E. Lieske
I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.
— Amy Bloom
Your mind is a book; God is the pen.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.
— Allan Bloom
I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world.
— Edan Lepucki
